Our Last Christmas Present

Every year, one of Julie’s twin daughters gets us a delivery of an English High Tea as a Christmas gift. With all the eating and socialising over Christmas, we always choose to have this delivered later, in this case, today.

Piglet’s Pantry is a very reliable company, delivering on time, and everything freshly made and very well-packaged. We are actually going to have this for our evening meal later, as Julie was at work when it was delivered.

This version of a High Tea does away with sandwiches, which is fine in my book. We get Sausage Rolls in two varieties, an indiviual Quiche each, and two delicious hand-made Scotch Eggs. The sweet stuff comprises four delicious bar cakes in assorted flavours, and a Fruit Scone each, accompained by clotted cream and jam. To round it off, they supply two tea bags of their own special blend.

Julie is having a mini-bottle of Prosecco with hers, and I will be on red wine as usual.

Our special tiered tea plate comes out for the occasion, and this is what it all looks like.

Savoury selection.

Sweet selection.

(Photos from Julie’s phone.)

A Special Lunch For My Birthday

Julie got up early today, to cook me a home-made ‘High Tea’ for my birthday.

(The photos can be enlarged.)

We decided to have it for lunch instead, so she prepared the coffee table in the living room, and I watched the news as we ate.

As you can see, she made Scotch Eggs, Quiche, and Sausage Rolls. Presented on our special ‘Tea stand’.

(Ollie’s toy box can be seen behind.)

The top tier includes home-made cupcakes and a selection of Baklava from my step-daughters, which were brought over last Sunday.

I hasten to add that we didn’t eat it all!

It will provide lunch tomorrow, and the rest of the Quiche will be eaten as a main meal this week.

And I am pleased to confirm that it all tasted as delcious as it looks